It's time for this year's CICS User Group conference in India again. This year's CICS User Group conference in India is being held at the southern city of Chennai for a day on the 19th September, 2011.

IBM's CICS is 40+ years old and still keeps evolving. CICS continues to be one of the most powerful, reliable, scalable and secure application environments because of it's deep integration with underlying z/OS operating system. Most of fortune 100 and top 50 banks in the world trust CICS to run their core, mission critical business applications. With the recent release of CICS v4.2 , it's the right time for all of you to hear what's going on in the CICS world.

If you have CICS interest of any kind, as a developer, administrator or otherwise, you should not miss the one-day event being held at "Trident Hotel", in Chennai. This event is a full day event starting from 8 AM and going on upto 6:00 PM in the evening. Some of the key highlights of this event are,

Along with CICS TS v4.2, IBM introduced a new addition to it's transaction processing portfolio called WebSphere eXtended Transaction Runtime (WXTR). Version 1 of this product was release in June 2011 as well. There would be a session and a poster presentation at this year's CUG on WXTR.